The most critical issue in restructuring is productivity without which we are going nowhere. Shagari budgeted $25b in 1983 when we were 80m and Buhari is budgeting $23b in 2018 when we are 200m people. Yet the state is preventing citizens from working to commission a park without buses and some owanbe

Without the missionaries, the history of northern Nigeria would be pathetic and the region would still be in the dark ages. We in Southern Kaduna are proud of our Christian heritage. We will live by it, die for it if need be, but we are going nowhere. We are free citizens and not in bondage to anyone or institution

It would take a combination of President Obasanjo and Alhaji Makarfi to change the course of the history of the people of Southern Kaduna. It was in 1999 that Senator Isaiah Balat was appointed a Minister to represent Kaduna State. Even then, the key northern Muslims protested saying that Senator Balat was a Christian not a northerner

The breakdown on state basis showed that ” Borno State, the hotbed of the Book Haram insurgency, recorded the highest number of deaths with a figure of 361. Borno is followed by Benue, 163; and Borno’s north-eastern neighbours, Taraba (107) and Adamawa, which witnessed 103 violent deaths

The argument of the “spokesman of killer herdsmen” is akin to saying that the Federal Government should first ensure that all citizens are in a position to satisfy their needs before the EFCC can prosecute anybody for corruption!

For the reason best known to it, the Government of Ondo state has not said a word on these incidents unlike that of Osun whose Executive Council took a strong position on the nefarious activities of the herdsmen about two weeks ago

If we have reached a point where killers are above the laws of Nigeria,a man who made clear commitment to the rule of law like you should not be an accessory after crime by holding talks with those who should be sweating before the law

It would appear that the “something worse” than Boko Haram is here as killings by Fulani herdsmen are getting backhand support from officialdom as evident by Dan-Alli’ s comments on Benue and Taraba killings as against the killings by Boko Haram

To show that Benue has come of age to make the right call in all situations, a group known as Benue Advancement Forum went on a visit to Governor Ortom a day after the insensitive lot visited to say who the Governors are and their mission to Benue

Adunni should be laughing at us hereafter as we queue, sweat and shuffle at filling stations 57 years after independence in a country that is the sixth largest exporter of crude but cannot refine petroleum products for her domestic consumption

The most unintelligible contribution to the restructuring debate in the year 2017(except a more sickening one is made in the remaining few days) has just come from Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum